Join the Kentucky Horse Park and John Lyons in kicking off 2010 in style in the park’s new Indoor Arena. The park has partnered with the Center for Women in Racing to bring America’s most trusted horseman to Kentucky, January 16-17, 2010. Enjoy Lyons’ expertise, experience and candor in a setting unlike any other. Lyons is one of the most respected trainers around the world. He is known as “America’s Most Trusted Horseman” and he has earned that title through almost 30 years of dedication to...

The third annual 2010 EQUUS Foundation/United States Equestrian Federation Youth Convention will take place on Saturday, January 16, 2010, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown, in Louisville, KY. The convention unites youth from around the country and helps to nurture and develop a growing interest in equestrian sport. As in prior years, this will be held in conjunction with the USEF Annual Meeting, allowing our youth the valuable experiences of watching and learning from some of the great...

Lexington, KY— Don’t miss your chance to vote for your “Favorite USEF Breed Competition.” The idea behind this contest is to award and promote the USEF licensed breed competitions for their efforts in running a show so well that exhibitors want to call it their favorite. Also, this contest gives exhibitors the opportunity to provide positive feedback about the competitions to the USEF. The competition rules include that you must be a USEF member to vote and you must have participated in the...

Lexington, KY – Pending final FEI approval, the USEF is announcing the following date and location for the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior/Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC). The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has received preliminary approval and is awaiting final allocation from the FEI Bureau. Pending this approval, the NAJYRC will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park July 28-August 1, 2010. This is a unique opportunity to use a venue which has been completely redesigned....

Every two years, while the selection committees ponder who will represent the United States, another selection process is under way to determine who will feed our horses while they represent our country. For the last four games—2002 Jerez World Equestrain Games (WEG), 2004 Athens Olympics, 2006 Aachen WEG, and 2008 Beijing Olympics—Pennfield Feed was the feed of choice for our equestrian teams, because just like them, Pennfield demonstrates the highest level of consistent quality....

As the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation Holiday Fundraiser draws closer, many exciting performances have been announced for the feature event. SUCCEED® and Wellington Classic Dressage will be hosting the Holiday Gala Fundraiser, December 11-12, 2009, to benefit the USET Foundation. The venue for the fundraiser will be the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. The two nights of exciting performances will include Pony Club Mounted Games featuring Gina Miles, Cathy...

HITS is pleased to announce that they will host the Dressage Getaway CDI*** during week III of the 2010 HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, CA. The show, held on February 12-14, will feature a full schedule of national and high-performance dressage classes. The 2010 HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, CA, will have six weeks of hunter/jumper competition from January 26 to March 14. During the Dressage Getaway competition, the CSI jumpers and CDI dressage horses will share the indoor warm-up ring and...

Clare Balding, one of the world’s most respected sports broadcasters, will present the new FEI Awards in Copenhagen on November 19. Balding, 38, has been part of the BBC’s presenting team at the past three Olympics and Paralympics, as well as fronting all its live racing coverage. A former champion amateur jockey herself, Balding also evented and show jumped in her youth and has a wide experience and knowledge of equestrian sport. She headed up the BBC’s coverage of this...

Classic Company President Bob Bell is feeling pretty special thanks to the kind folks of the Georgia International Horse Park, City Manager Tony Lucas, and Randal Mills, the Mayor of Conyers, who proclaimed Friday, November 7 as “Bob Bell Day” in the city of Conyers. The proclamation was an expression of appreciation to The Classic Company for 15 years of quality hunter/jumper events held at the former Olympic venue. Mayor Mills shared how Classic Company was the first major equestrian event to...

Competition in the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series continued during the month of October, as the end of the Series was drawing near. With only a few horse shows remaining in the schedule, competition was in full-swing. With Cavalor's support, the series honors one rider each month as the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series Rider of the Month. The honor goes to the one rider who earns the most points on one horse in series competition that month. With...